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GBA President raises concerns over lack of clear rules in CJ removal process
President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Efua Ghartey, defended the Association’s role in protecting the independence of the judiciary, while raising serious concerns about the procedure used in the removal of a Chief Justice.
Addressing lawyers at the 2025/2026 Annual General Conference of the GBA, Mrs. Ghartey explained that the Constitution places a duty on the Association to safeguard the independence of the courts, a responsibility the Bar has always taken seriously.
She noted that Article 146 of the 1992 Constitution, which deals with the removal of judges, had for the first time in the Fourth Republic been applied to a Chief Justice.
While acknowledging that the Constitution allows for such a process, she stressed that the Bar’s main concern is the absence of clear rules to guide it.
“In the absence of specific rules, the process becomes sketchy and risks being arbitrary and unfair,” she observed.
Mrs. Ghartey recalled that on April 30, 2025, the Association passed a resolution calling for the immediate enactment of comprehensive regulations to ensure fairness, transparency, and accountability in all proceedings under Article 146.
She expressed disappointment that no such rules had been produced since then.
Quoting the well-known principle that “justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done,” she warned that the lack of clear regulations in the removal of such a high-ranking official sets a troubling precedent.
She emphasized that justice must serve everyone equally whether rich or poor, powerful or powerless, those who dispense justice or those who receive it.
By: Jacob Aggrey
The Western Regional Police Command has intercepted two trucks loaded with 152 bales of dried leaves suspected to be narcotics.
Three persons namely Moses Kwaku Tawiah 44, Kwame Kontor 44 and Kwabena Forson, 55 have been arrested.
The incident occurred on Sunday 22nd February 2026 at about 1720hrs when duty men at the Assorkor barrier near Shama intercepted a Kia Rhino truck with registration number GE 8965-12 loaded with bales suspected to be narcotic drugs, upon seeing the police, occupants fled the scene.
Suspect Moses Kwaku Tawiah 44 surfaced at the scene later and claimed the impounded truck belonged to his brother and pleaded with police to release the truck.
He was subsequently arrested and during interrogation he confessed that he was rather in charge of a Hyundai gold truck with registration number GS 3368-17 loaded with similar goods parked at Nkroful, Block Factory near Sekondi.
Police together with the suspect proceeded to said location and found the truck parked there. Further investigation revealed that each bale contained about 80 slabs of the compressed substance.
On 23/02/26 at 0200 hrs, suspects Isaac Kwame Kontor and Kwabena Forson showed up at the same barrier with a cash of GH 69,000.00 to bribe the police to release the trucks.
The police took the money and immediately arrested them for further investigation.
The two trucks containing the alleged substance have been impounded, and the cash of GH 69,000.00 has been retained for evidential purposes.
The three suspects are currently in police custody assisting investigation.
The regional police command assures the general public of its commitment to combatting drug trafficking and other related offences.
Richard Appiah, the footballer who killed two children and stored part of their bodies in a fridge at Abesim in the Bono Region in 2021 has been handed a lifetime sentence.
This was after a five member panel of judges at the Accra High Court returned a verdict of guilty against the convict.
Appiah, 32, also a draughtsman would spend the rest of his life in prison after he was convicted of murder.
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BY MALIK SULLEMANA
